Curaeus forbesi (Sclater, 1886)

Pereira, Glauco Alves, Dantas, Sidnei de Melo, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Roda, Sônia Aline, Albano, Ciro, Sonntag, Frederico Acaz, Leal, Sergio, Periquito, Mauricio Cabral, Malacco, Gustavo Bernardino & Lees, Alexander Charles, 2014, Status of the globally threatened forest birds of northeast Brazil, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 54 (14), pp. 177-194 : 189

Curaeus forbesi (Sclater, 1886) ,

Forbes Blackbird (IUCN and MMA: EN)

This cryptic and thus often overlooked species has two disjunct populations, one found in the PCE and the other in the state of Minas Gerais, south-east Brazil ( Jaramillo & Burke, 1999; Fraga, 2011; Mazzoni et al., 2012). Here, we report records from a further 13 sites in Pernambuco ( Table 2, Fig. 11 ). The observation in Escada, Pernambuco involved a flock forag-

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FIGURE 11: Curaeus forbesi (Sclater, 1886), Forbes Blackbird, Tamandaré, PE, October 2008 (Ciro Albano).